FFR Credit Adjustment

Ok, as you guys know we changed the way the shop works in order to prevent an exploit. Today however, by the time you read this, we will have run a script that will auto-adjust your credits to what they should be. So if you had cheated credits that somehow filtered their way down to you, they will be gone. We are keeping full transactions of the changes and know exactly how we have changed each of the more than 1 million accounts.

Fair is fair.

Cheers,

Synthlight

EDIT: If you received very large amounts of credits through credit transfer or through challenges, those may be gone as well. They were most likely not legit. Since we can’t really verify which credits were cheated and which ones weren’t, there’s really no way around this…regrettable, but necessary in order to give the credit system some actual meaning. -Shash

Challenge Credits. You Love Them.

Lately we have been seeing alot of cheating to gain credits from the challenge system. I know you guys love all those credits but it was getting way out of hand. We have sent up an update to the challenge system that debit’s your account immediately upon challenging and will return the correct amount upon winning or the challenge timing out.

The only downside was that in order to do this, we had remove over 60,000 old and unanswered challenges. Many of the unanswered challenges were from cheaters anyway.

We will be sifting through the old challenges, banning accounts and removing stats as found appropriate. We will also be adjusted the credit levels of people who obviously received or cheated credits. So no complaining if you lose your 1 billion credits from cheating.

Cheers,

Synthlight + Opteron Blade Server Madness

I Can See The Light…. FINALLY!

So, I Can See The Light by Pyroshock and stepped by Silver_Brian has been sitting in my queue since the end of SEPTEMBER. That is over 3 and a half months. Needless to say, I felt obligated to add it, since no other file has been in the queue more than 6 weeks.

(p.s. It’s in the lower *left* corner of dance, and has a difficulty of “Standard”. -Shash)
(p.p.s. Apparently, I can discern my right from my left in only TWO tries. Mad skillz. -Shash)

Enjoy.

-Tass

Also: Congrats to our 2 new MP Mods, Rebirth0 and Windscarredfaith.

FFR Shop BugFix

We have tracked down a bug in the FFR shop that prevented people from purchasing songs with their credits. You should find that if you have sufficient credits, you should be able to purchase the appropriate song.

More stuff on the way.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Falling Arrows Playtype Added to Multiplayer

Well, I think the title says it all. One of the many new features we have been working on is multiple playtypes within multiplayer. A few minutes ago I added the “Falling” Playtype to Multiplayer. This was much more difficult than it seemed but I think many of the experienced players will appreciate the addition.

For those of you who read the FFR news from within the Game itself. That feature is now finally working again thanks to Jason Key and a little php magic.

Multiplayer now connects on port 80, which is a commonly used port and will help some of the people with connection issues behind firewalls.

We are doing some major security overhauls on the game and just ask that if you ever get “Sorry, your version is out of date” messages, please just clear your cache.

More new features to come. I will be testing them over the next few days.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Songs, Songs, Songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, since our queue keeps growing and growing and growing, we’ve decided to make Friday’s our second official release day for new songs. We’ll release a new song EVERY Friday in addition to EVERY Sunday. 2 new songs, each and every week, for all eternity, or at least until our queue gets down low again.

Tonight’s file is back to the Classics. Turkish March is another Beethoven piece stepped by our resident classical stepfile expert, Reach. It seems fairly simple at first, but the entire song is laced with jacks, which makes it a nightmare to FC on FFR (I’ve yet to break a 350 combo in about 20 trial attemps, but I can FC every time in SM).

Anywho, enjoy the new song and the news of getting 2 new songs a week instead of the previous one.

PS – If you didn’t notice, we removed the jacktacular ending arrows in Synesthetic, reducing it from 773 to 769 arrows. It is now AAAable. Unfortunately, we had to wipe the High Score list for this song. So, you’ll need to replay it if you care about having a score on every song.

Boycotting URL links because I’m lazy, (note: I am not flazy jason)
-Tass

New Features Testing

We are testing a couple of internal features in FFR tonight that will not be seen by the public. Let us know if you experience any difficulty that is out of the ordinary when playing the game. We will let you know about these new features in the near future.

Cheers,

Synthlight

We Welcome You To 2007 With A {Rose}

So, Shash and I were discussing what we’d release tonight in place of the delayed SotY… and we were both like, “man, we need more cornandbeans.” As such, we present you with more cornandbeans. {Rose} was stepped FOUR different times by three different stepfile artists, and in our humble opinion, this is the best one of the bunch, by hi19hi19.

Plus, Rose is appropriate, as the Rose Bowl has been held on January 1st for over 70 years.

Anyway, you can find it in Dance. Although be warned… future Dance songs WILL start being put into Misc, purely to prevent Dance from reaching an 8th page.

Short and sweet, cause I don’t really know what else to say.

Have a great upcoming year everyone!

Tass

New Song! CAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT!!!

So, I started a new job about 3 weeks ago. First 2 weeks were training for a few hours a day; real simple stuff. This week was the start of the REAL training, on site. Worked about 37 hours over the past 4 days, and expect that trend to continue next week, the week after, and every week after that (50+ hours for the non-holiday weeks). Not to mention working 12 hours today alone.

What did I want to do when I got home tonight? Play a new song in FFR. And what do you know… I have the ability to add a new song to FFR. So I’m doing it. BECAUSE I WANT TO! Enjoy.

This song has been in the queue forever. One of the 1st songs I received after taking over SotW duties, yet it hasn’t made it in… until now. Chaotic Sound is a song with a nice hard beat, by our very own RaVeRaVeR, who goes by DJ Chaos for his musical endeavors. Stepped by my main man Jimerax, you’ll be sure to love it. Not too difficult of a song… I’ve SDGed every time I’ve played it, although yet to AAA. You can find it in Dance, lower left hand corner.

In other news, you may have noticed that some of the difficulties were changed on certain levels. FINALLY, right? They now all reflect the difficulties that we, as a community, feel are accurate, as per this thread. Big thanks go to Shashakiro for fixing this…. cause I was too busy bring home the big bucks.

Don’t worry either… there will still be another song released on New Year’s Eve… but it won’t be SotY. Unfortunately, there has been a slight delay to SotY, which will be released as soon as it is finished.

Rockin’ In The New Year… 2 days early,

Tass